Guest viewing the augmented reality landscape of Elisabeth Efua Sutherland's performance ANANSI’S WIFE//AKUA’S DAUGHTER using Adinkra symbols.

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland performance piece explores issues of feminism and identity, narrative and history, by crafting the origin story of ‘Aso', the wife of the famous Akan trickster 'Anansi'. A piece of modern myth-making, AW//AD is an experiment in merging traditional storytelling, sound, movement and visual elements into a multimedia landscape. In the performance, a solo storyteller rewrites the figure of 'Aso' as the central figure of the 'Anansi' folktales. AW//AD looks at performance and storytelling as means of psychotherapy: a way to fill the lacunae in terms of the experience of a female Ghanaian creator figure; and as a way to craft even newer ways of seeing and reacting to the world.